Summer 2020 Challenge
One of my favorite songs, because my mom and brother, both gone now because of cancer, loved it:
Summertime, an' the livin' is easy.Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high.
Oh, yo' daddy's rich and yo' ma is good-lookin'.So hush, little baby, don' you cry.
One of these mornin's you goin' to rise up singin'
Then you'll spread yo' wings an' you'll take the sky.
But till that mornin', there's a nothin' can harm you
With Daddy an' Mammy standin' by.
But summer is also a busy work season, and the activities are minimal, so the challenge is what do I write. I have decided to write about who we are in rural Montana and find ways to celebrate that fact.
In rural Montana, we can enjoy complete solitude and connect with nature anytime we need it. While driving to Big Sandy, it's always possible to see a herd of antelope or deer. On this morning, they were quite close to the road, I slowed way down, didn't want another deer to hit my Explorer, but they just stood there looking at me like they wanted me to stop and join them. A little way up the road, two Golden Eagles were surveying the hillside.
The road always has its roadkill, like a dead baby skunk that didn't make it across the road and the plethora of gophers.
A great true story, once when my nephew came to visit, they went prairie dog hunting. When he got home to Seattle, his teacher asked the class to write a paper on what they did that summer. My sister-in-law received a call from the school asking her to come immediately over to the school because there was a huge problem. She had no idea what the problem was. When she got there, they took her into a small room to talk to her about her son's writings. He had written and described in detail the hunting expectation. Only he misspelled gophers and instead had written golfers. My sister in law died laughing; they didn't think it was funny. But she explained to them that he had gone on a gopher hunt, not a golfer hunt. They didn't even know what a gopher was. Life is different here.
I want to show more pictures of how we live, and I would love to show yours.
Let's celebrate!
